7 days ago5 min'The Story of An Hour' by Kate ChopinIntroduction by Sarah Dobbie The short story is perhaps one of the most compelling forms of creative expression available to writers. The...
May 1310 min'The Tell-Tale Heart' by Edgar Allan PoeIntroduction by Melissa Wan Along with Roald Dahl’s fantastic ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’, Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ is one of...
May 612 min'The Doll's House' by Katherine MansfieldIntroduction by Robert Stone Ending things is difficult for everybody not least for story writers. Eudora Welty said, ‘It’s really part...
Apr 2915 min'Hop-Frog' by Edgar Allan PoeIntroduction by Jonathan Taylor At the ferocious climax of Poe’s story ‘Hop-Frog’ (1849), the central character – a ‘court jester’ who is...
Apr 2235 min'Blumfeld, An Elderly Bachelor' by Franz KafkaIntroduction by James Morrison You are born in Prague 1883, a Jewish German Bohemian in Austria-Hungary. You are lonely, an isolated man....
Apr 1516 min 'The Monkey's Paw' by W.W. JacobsIntroduction by Krishan Coupland As with many cultural artefacts, my first experience of the general idea behind W W Jacobs’s superb...
Apr 88 min 'A Pair of Silk Stockings' by Katherine ChopinIntroduction by Amy Cipolla Barnes. “Little Mrs. Sommers one day found herself the unexpected possessor of fifteen dollars.” When you...
Apr 116 min'A Hunger Artist' by Franz KafkaIntroduction by Cheryl Pappas. I’ve always been captivated by this parable by Kafka. A man is in a cage at the circus, on display for his...
Mar 2613 min'Pictures' by Katherine MansfieldIntroduction by Ailsa Cox Katherine Mansfield’s writing is an inspiration for me, because her style is so highly charged emotionally and...
Mar 1951 min'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' by Edgar Allan PoeIntroduction by JL. Bogenschneider. The influence of Edgar Allan Poe’s philosopher-detective – C. August Dupin – and his investigation...
Mar 127 min'Three Pictures' by Virginia WoolfIntroduction by Melissa Fu. When Tom invited me to share a classic short story, after much deliberation, I chose Virginia Woolf’s 'Three...
Mar 530 min'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad' by M.R.JamesIntroduction by Gaynor Jones. Raised on a diet of Stephen King, Clive Barker and 80s Slasher films, I consider myself fairly scare-proof....
Feb 2621 min 'The I.O.U.' by F. Scott FitzgeraldIntroduction by Sophie Haydock. 'The IOU' by the American author F Scott Fitzgerald was written more than a hundred years ago – in 1920,...
Feb 1922 min'The Room in the Tower' by E F BensonIntroduction by Ben Pester This is a story about dreams as premonitions. The narrator repeatedly dreams that he arrives at a large...
Feb 1212 min 'The Necklace' by Guy de MaupassantIntroduction by Amanda Huggins. The necklace in Maupassant’s story is beautiful. To Mathilde, it represents everything she wants and...
Feb 519 min'The New Utopia' by Jerome K. JeromeIntroduction by John O'Farrell Today we only remember Jerome K. Jerome for the wonderful Three Men In A Boat and although the following...
Jan 295 min'The Story of an Hour' by Kate ChopinIntroduction by Vicky Grut. Kate Chopin (1850 - 1904), lived in Louisiana and much of her early writing drew on her years in the...
Jan 1537 min'The Nose' by Nikolai GogolIntroduction by Chloe Wilson. Imagine that, one day, your nose not only vanished from your face, but then ascended to a higher social...
Jan 126 min 'The Daughters of The Late Colonel' by Katherine MansfieldIntroduction by Adrian Duncan. Back in 2008 or so, when I turned thirty, I began attending creative writing classes in Dublin. I'd been...
Dec 7, 202140 min 'Days' by Dorothy EdwardsIntroduction by Jo Lloyd. I only read Dorothy Edwards for the first time quite recently. For years, when people mentioned her, I had...